U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing (GRAM) was awarded a federal contract to expand fill/finish capacity for COVID-19 vaccine doses at its Grand Rapids, Michigan facility. The contract will create several new jobs.

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) announced a $24 million investment from the U.S. Department of Defense and HHS to scale up U.S. manufacturing of the BD Veritor SARS-CoV-2 test, increasing production capacity by 50% to over 12 million test kits per month by February 2021.

Phlow Corporation received a US$354 million base award from BARDA to manufacture essential medicines at risk of shortage, including for COVID-19. The total contract value is up to US$812 million with options.

Retractable Technologies was awarded a delivery order under an existing contract by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to supply automated retraction safety syringes, valued at $83,788,439.80.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded GE and Ford a $336 million contract to supply 50,000 simplified ventilators by mid-July 2020 under the Defense Production Act.

Vyaire Medical Inc. was awarded a $407 million contract by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to produce 22,000 ventilators by the end of June 2020 for the Strategic National Stockpile.

General Motors began mass production of Ventec Life Systems V+Pro critical care ventilators at its Kokomo, Indiana factory under a 30,000-unit order from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contract is valued at $7,143,500,000.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded General Motors and Philips a total of $1.1 billion to supply 73,000 ventilators under the Defense Production Act. Philips will receive about $647 million for 43,000 ventilators, and GM will receive the remainder for 30,000 ventilators.